 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...honour to subscribe for.' — ' Oh,' said Bentley , ' ay now I recollect— your trans* lation :— it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope , but you must not call it Homer.' H. -- POPE. 569 : is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expence of dignity. A hero would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...' which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — ' Oh,' said Bentley, ' ay, now I recollect — your translation : — it is a ' pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer.' H, hundred, hundred years ; yet he found, even then, the state of the world so much altered, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...' which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — ' Oh,' said Bentley, ' ay, now I recollect — your translation : — it is a * pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Ho;ner.' H. hundred years ; yet he found, even then, the state of the world so much altered, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...Pope, " which you did me the honour to subscribe for." ' Oh,' said Bentley, ' ay, now I recollect — your translation : — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer.' H>' ft.. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad, -when they have been touched with some unexpected... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 pages
...' which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — ' Oh,' said Bentley, ' ay, now I recollect — your translation : — it is a ' pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer." H. hundred years,, yet he found, even then, the state of the world so much altered, and the demand... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...me the honour to subscribe for." ' Oh' said Bentley,' ay, now I recollect— your translation:—it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer.' 11. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad, when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...•which you did me the honour to subscribe for." — " Oh," said Bcntiey, " ay, now I recollect — your translation: — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer." totally denied; but it must be remembered that necessitas quod cogit defendit; that may be lawfully... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
..." which you did me the honour to subscribe for." — " Oh," said Bentley, " ay, now I recollect — your translation: — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer." totally denied; but it must be remembered that necessitas qwd cogit defendil; that may be lawfully... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...' which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — ' Oh/ said Bentley, ' ay, now I recollect — your translation : — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer.' > found, in the progress of learning, that in all nations the first writers are simple, and that every... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...which you did me the honour to subscribe for.'—' Oh,' said Bentley, ' ay, now 1 recollect—your translation :—it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not pall it Homer,' that every age improves in elegance. One refinement always makes way for another; and... | |
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which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — 'Oh,' said Bentley, 'ay, now I recollect — your translation: — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer? 
